The irony is that if the stewards in Australia had figured out immediately that Hamilton was lying to them, they wouldn't have penalized him for it. There have been countless cases where a driver/team's explanation for an accident is rejected by the stewards, which is basically the same as the stewards saying they lied. I can't think of a single case where the lie itself was explicitly punished by the stewards.
So Hamilton isn't really being punished because he lied, he's being punished because his lie worked.
The other irony is that the journalist (Adam Cooper of SpeedTV.com) who wrote the story that blew the whistle on this is a Lewis Hamilton fan.
And Hitman, F1 isn't a sport. It's a soap opera that happens to hold races every two weeks. If it were just a sport it would be pretty boring.
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